tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post4769465808399591461..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: The great escapeThe Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-41425832275096697362007-09-28T14:01:00.000+01:002007-09-28T14:01:00.000+01:00McQueen not only made it on to the screen in the a...McQueen not only made it on to the screen in the abysmal 'Great Escape', but, astoundingly, on to a dust jacket of a re-print of Paul Brickhill's original account, fact into fiction, into more fiction. The defining image of an Allied (chiefly British) P.O.W.s struggle to escape their jailers is an American.<BR/><BR/>The Germans were scrupulous about keeping the British and American P.O.W.s apart. I know of no American escape bids, even unsuccessful.<BR/><BR/>Clive James once commented that what got William Holden to the bank of the River Kwai was 'The Bank', the American one producers needed to finance the film and ensure a US release; hence McQueen leads the idiot, bumbling Brits with flair and sexual panache, something they, sadly lack (unless playing the Nazis).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com